M:ST 4 Artists
Liss Platt (Hamilton)
You Can’t Get There From Here Redux
Performance and video screening
Presented by CSIF
Thu Oct 16, 8PM
CSIF screening room
For You Can’t Get There From Here Redux, Liss Platt “performs” the projection of a short film by continuously pedaling a custom-built bicycle to power a 16mm film projector. You Can't Get There From Here is a short experimental documentary and kinetic scrapbook about being sixteen. Cacophonous, contradictory, and constantly on the move, this coming-of-age story is rife with burgeoning queer desire, adolescent rebelliousness, and family crisis. The film offers a collage of abstracted images (framed by the inconsistent projection speed) that investigate adolescence, family, and memory. Following the performance, viewers will also be able to try pedaling the custom-built bicycle for themselves.
Liss Platt is a media artist whose works take the form of photographs, videotapes, films, websites, performances, and installations. Her artwork combines personal narrative, critical analysis, humour, and gender politics to explore how we come to understand ourselves within the world. Her work has been exhibited and screened throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.
www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~plattl
Exhibition Assistance funding provided by 
Liss Platt
You Can’t Get There From Here Redux
Photo: Erica Brisson
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
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